This was a tough one to prep. Neil was not pushing much volume and the crowd was going insane because he was playing new songs and the hits. Compression won’t even help.. so I dropped the levels whenever the crowd cheers loud and Neil is not playing. There are still some obnoxious crowd parts, but it makes it a little more listenable at least.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Sony TCD-D3 DAT and Nakamichi CM300 mic
Tried to make it better in Sony Soundforge 10
Here is the last set that I taped at this benefit. It was pretty cool to see all of these sets in one night, in a relatively small venue. In a hurry today, but you know what you are getting- a set of Waters- penned floyd songs.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Sony TCD-D3 DAT and Nakamichi CM300 mic
BONUS post! That’s right, this isn’t even the last post of the day. Huge thanks to Adam Dristle for telling me what to do. This was another case of not remembering what I had in the collection. This was KROQ’s first year doing this and it was all acoustic. No “almost” yet.
The tape sounds pretty nice for an audience recording… except for that low end rumble. Pretty bold of Jon and Ken to start the set with an unreleased track, but I am glad they did. Great version. It sounds like the band was already getting some KROQ airplay (Golden Blunders) even though the Dear 23 album was just released at the time. Cool.
from Ken Stringfellow: “This was a great show… the cap to our first full US tour. Just a few days before we’d gone off the road in Iowa in black ice, front first into a snow bank. Twisted the bumper of the van and totaled the UHaul. Got back on the road, and finished the full band tour in Denver. Jon & I flew to LA and spent the next week in the sun, going to the beach, doing promo… the rest of the band unfortunately got as far as Wyoming, where -40F temps froze the oil in the van and the band and crew found themselves stuck in a crummy motel for 3-4 days til temps warmed up. Oops. Thus the great singers vs band gap widened… often a problem”
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
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